Linda Bird

I lived in Teesdale from age seven on a small farm in Deepdale; went to Bowes school and then Barnard Castle Grammar Technical School.

These formative years and the people and landscape of Teesdale have a great influence on my poetry.

Working in social housing and in a local university has led me to consider how society impacts on individual lives.

I returned to Teesdale in 1994 and began writing poetry after attending a course at the Witham in 2018.

Here is a poem inspired by a workshop at the TCR Hub.